offensive swabs

i dunno the more ppl tell me about the s/wrtrs life in the film industry the greater the umbrage i take. last night too much about presentation; you have to be really user friendly blah blah. to get noticed...okay.. but its loaded against you anyhow. was twice told that 'once you have sold your script ''its none of your business'' what they do with it'..in spite of the fact that 1. i have copyright and 2. the agreement was the opposite. also the industry is devoted to american audience tastes, cultural deficiencies...and again and again the idea that its okay to pay the writer virtually nothing and yet the thing might make everyone else huge millionaires. yet he willingly agreed it was utterly unjust and wrong...no idea in his fetching little head that something has to be done about this. it seems writers lost their power base in the early days of hollywood. and because 'everyone in this business is just in it for money' they have neither pride nor sense but go on letting this ...basically thieving...go on.

so i'm back where i was months ago. us writers have to keep up standards with scripts; but i mean the stories, characters etc. so we form guilds. done. but then the writers learn all they can on film-making, get their own crew together, get funding from grants, whatever, and do their films themselves. since everyone is investing in it, everyone gets percentages/credits etc. so its a co-op. there should not be a caste system where someone is too grand to even speak to a lower being; in a co-op even the tea-boy is really an intern; the director/whatever of tomorrow. i like the deferred reward system; you pay whatever you can afford, but they get balance/percentages/royalties/credits later. absolutely. their career should be of great importance to entire crew.but the over-riding oncern is QUALITY; of story, acting, filming. not pleasing money pigs. i personally want nothing to do with the oppos as they run it now. so i will absolutely NEVER 'sell' my screenplays. i'm a partner; or no deal. i like and agree with the director; or no deal. and my take is as massive as it deserves to be in the event of a success. or no deal. and you don't annoy me AND expect me to be servile. no deal. and last but not least; americans are the least able audiences in the world. why are they dictating everything? let them grow up. let them at least understand that their urge to flock like starlings to big money productions or bill bullnecks latest grab at incredible wealth is matched in nature by a kind of dozy rat called a lemming. as far as i can see they got no writers; only jobbing clerks.

he admitted himself that they NEVER interfere with the works of a real writer; novellists whatever. so you make a reputation however you do it and they suddenly find their right place? i think so. anyhow my course is set. as above.

so today i'm reading tp latest...but slowly. got to finish b. g&e; doing that now. finish notes cine[1/2 way]. and practise new camera. also talk dwp, type up things. etc etc...the list is long. i try to do at least 1 thing every day. but over-riding concerns is to get one film done; be it never so tiny. that and getting proper cameras/sound etc....

so really the next big agenda is getting together £5-6000 cash in bank. that and getting out 1 bath sized begging bowl and going round every fund available to get finance for first film. one film theoretcally should bankroll another. but i know i'm doing the right thing. their way is wrong; as much for the fact that its potluck if your s/play is even read. no. what i will do is get together a panel of well-known seniors and they can go over film script looking for faults, suggesting improvements. if its a go with 55% of them then thats a go, innit?

so lets wait n see. but i think if it works most every writer will do the same as me. because hollywood is just plain godawful. and some of us respect our ability too much to sell it to a load of bullies. and thats that.